of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1998 New Year Honours. In 2020, she was made a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres. McGowan died on 16 March 2022 at a hospital in Brighton. She was 90, and suffered from bladder cancer prior to her death. Publications L'art du Ballet de Cour en France, 1581–1643. Paris, 1963. Les fêtes de cour en Savoie: L'Oeuvre de Philippe d'Aglié. Société de l'Histoire de Théâtre, 1970. Montaigne's Deceits. London, 1974, L'entrée de Henri II à Rouen, 1550. Amsterdam, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1974, Balet Comique de la Reyne, 1581. Medieval and Renaissance Texts, Binghamton, 1982, Form and Meaning: Aesthetic Coherence in Seventeenth-century French Drama, ed. with Ian D. McFarlane. Avebury, 1982, Ideal Forms in the Age of Ronsard. California University Press, 1985. Moy qui me voy: the Writer and the Self from Montaigne to Leiris, ed. with G. Craig. Oxford University Press, 1989, . The Court Ballet of Louis XIII. London, Victoria & Albert Museum, 1989. The Vision of Rome in the French Renaissance. Yale University Press, 2000, . Dance in the Renaissance: European Fashion, French Obsession. Yale University Press, 2008, . La Danse à la Renaissance. Sources livresques et albums d'images. National Library of France, 2012, Dynastic Marriages 1612/1615: A Celebration of the Habsburg and Bourbon Unions. Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2013, Festival and Violence: Princely Entries in the Context of War, 1480–1635, 2019, Brepols, . References Further reading 1931 births 2022 deaths 20th-century women writers Academics of the University of Glasgow Academics of the University of Sussex Alumni of the University of Reading Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Dance historians Deaths from bladder cancer Deaths from cancer in England People from Lincolnshire Academic staff of the University of Strasbourg People educated at Stamford High School, Lincolnshire